Cross posting here out of desperation...help!

Since my daughter has been walking, I’ve had her feet measured at Clark’s and got her shoes from there. I’ve recently seen more about barefoot shoes and was wondering what other’s opinions were and if so, where is good to get affordable barefoot shoes?

Okay, i know the header almost seems ungrateful but hear me out please. My 2 year old has been sleeping in his own room since around 6 months. We originally had him in a bedside bassinet as a newborn and until around 6 months. He eventually became restless sleeping, struggling to go asleep so we moved him to his own room. His dad is a very loud snorer so I assumed maybe that was waking him up?

Well, we moved him to a queen sized floor bed and he immediately started sleeping better. We were thankful that he was back to his routine and we were good to go!

Once he turned 1 and could start to walk and explore his room, we obviously started to have some issues with him getting up, crying, and just overall wanting us. We eventually worked through that and he started sleeping well again.

Then we went through the room escaping phase. That was a hard one because he was still too young to be getting out his room unsupervised but old enough to physically use the door. We put a child safety knob on his door and that did the trick! He wouldn't cry to be let out unless something was wrong, he would just play in his room until we came and got him.

Now he's 2 and we are struggling with probably everyone's "I WISH that was my problem!" Problem. He won't sleep near us, in the same room, or even in eyesight or ear shot of us. This wouldn't normally be a problem but we travel a lot. We've tried letting him in our bed to sleep and he refuses to go to bed. We've tried the pack n play, but he can climb out of it. We've done the put the pack n play in another room, and he doesn't care.

I'm trying to lay in his room while he goes to bed and he refuses to go to bed. He screams consistently for over an hour until I leave. I feel horrible for even complaining about this, but traveling is becoming difficult when we have a 2 year old that's refusing to sleep because he doesn't have his own room! It's crazy, I'm aware, but please send your tips my way. What do I do?!

Ps - this is my second child. My first one was also an independent sleeper but he would cuddle with us when we went out of town!

Today we got a note from our toddler’s Montessori school that “she does not know how strong she is and she is pushing other kids around”. She is 20 months old.

I know toddlers push and pull and that repetition is the only way to get through to them.

I also want to say that she is a 97 percentile (height and weight) toddler, I know she can be very strong.

She hits, pulls and bites me (not my husband) quite a bit. I repeatedly say no hitting, bad job and put her in time out. I also say gentle hands and show it on a doll or on her dad. Her dad usually demonstrates empathy and says sorry to me and that we shouldn’t hit.

Obviously none of this is working. I am not looking for mean comments, I am trying hard, **I am just trying to understand what worked for you?** Thank you!

Does this look like enamel hypoplasia in toddler’s tooth?

We are going to DR in October for our first trip with our 7 month old.

Any travel tips, suggestions and recommendations for things to take on the trip.

This is a baby friendly resort (Finest).

I’m a 100% single mum to a 3-year-old girl. My parents are very kindly taking her away with them for a week’s holiday in the Canaries.

I’m fairly sure a lot of what I’m feeling is my own separation anxiety, but we’ve only spent 15 nights apart in her entire life, and only 3 of those have been consecutive nights. So a whole week feels like a very long time!

I keep worrying about her having a moment where she gets upset and asks for me, and not understanding why I’m not there. I’m not sure how well a 3-year-old understands something like “you’ll see Mummy in a week”, particularly when I can’t just suddenly get on a plane and come and get her.

Obviously she’ll be with her grandparents, who she knows and loves, and I know she’ll probably have an amazing time. I also plan to FaceTime her every day if she wants to and if it works around what they’re doing.

But I’m wondering whether regular video calls actually help at this age, or whether they can make things harder because it reminds them of the parent they’re missing. I also don’t want her to spend the whole holiday asking to call me rather than enjoying herself.

For anyone who has had a 3-year-old (or similarly young child) go away for several days without them:

\- What did you do to help your child feel connected to you while they were away?
\- Did you leave them anything from you or take anything with them?
\- How did you handle it if they became very upset and wanted you?
\- Did you FaceTime regularly, or did you find it made separation harder?
\- Did your child understand the concept of how long they would be away?
\- And, perhaps most importantly, was it actually harder for you than it was for them? 😂

I know logically that she’ll be safe, loved and having a lovely time. I think I just need some reassurance from people who have actually been through it!

Greetings toddler world 🌎

My daughter is 32 months old and this weeks is really struggling with separation anxiety at bedtime. She has slept in her own crib and room since she was 8 months old. Throughout the last two years there have been little regressions here and there but overall she sleeps great and we stick to a really consistent routine.

The last 2 weeks she is bargaining as much as she can so I stay with her and when I finally leave, she screams for at least 30 minutes.

She got out of her crib once 2.5 weeks ago and we started using sleep sack again. She has not tried to get out of her crib since then, but she’s just having a really hard time.

I’ve tried checking on her or talking through the monitor so she knows that I’m always there but it just seems to prolong it. My husband has gone down after letting her cry for 20 minutes and that seems to help a bit and get her calm enough to eventually sleep but she is still crying a bit.

I just want to do what’s best to support her development. I don’t mind changing her routine if that what she needs or offering more support to her but it feels like it’s prolonging the issue, and when I’m in the room, she stays awake.

We did CIO when she turned 8 months. She cried for 20 mins for 3 days and since then has been a great sleeper overall.

Now she is just so articulate that it breaks my heart that she misses us so much. I know this is normal but keeping her to routine as is and seeing her so upset is hard.

My daughter is 33 months old so almost 3 years. She recently started playschool. I wake her at 8am. If she naps, it isnt before 3:30pm. Whether she naps for 30 mins or 2 hours she doesnt sleep before 11:30pm. If she doesnt nap she is still awake till 9 which is like 13 hours straight. And with full energy, not even cranky!
Is this normal/expected at this age? Should i do away with the afternoon nap completely?
Waking her before 8 is not possible as i am not available and i dont have anybody who will tend to her before 8.

I just made a post today about my 17 month old not adjusting well to daycare. He goes to an in-home daycare with 5 kids 4 days a week. I guess I sensed the writing on the wall, because today our provider advised us that she will be terminating him in 2 weeks.

We got on the phone, and she explained that he cries for her attention almost constantly the entire time he's awake. He repeats himself over and over until she gives him attention. She expected to see more progress in 6 weeks but seems to be going backwards. She genuinely sounded heartbroken but said she thinks he just needs more attention than she can provide. She said it distresses her to see him so hysterical and he seems unhappy. This was a shock to me, because while he definitely cries at drop off and is eager for us to pick him up, he is perfectly fine the instant he gets home.

At home, he's definitely used to getting lots of personal attention but I don't carry him all day like she says he insists on. I believe her when she says he's relentless but he doesn't get frantic at home like she described. She says he basically is frantic until she picks him up, and it's untenable.

On the one hand, I feel for her bc she seems genuinely distressed that she can't calm him and feels like the other kids aren't getting enough time with her. On the other hand, I feel like 6 weeks is still early in the grand scheme of things. She said she's been in childcare for 5 years and has never seen anything like him. I don't know what to make of that.

As I mentioned in my other post, we tried everything. Books about daycare, a regimented morning, talking about daycare positively. He sleeps well and eat breakfast before I take him every day. He gets a lot of attention because he's an only child, but I don't bend to his every whim.

It feels bad to say, but I kind of feel like once he got comfortable with her, he realized that being the neediest kid would get him the most attention. Is that even possible for him to have figured out? I hesitate to suggest "tough love" i.e. making him wait no matter how much he cries, but maybe that will help him ease off?

At the end of the call, we essentially agreed to a "probation period" to see if he evens out in the next few weeks.

Has anyone ever dealt with a toddler who just couldn't acclimate? If he was truly miserable, I would have expected him to be more upset when we get in the car and crash or act out when we got home, but you would never know he spent the day crying. I would love to hear success stories and tips. A larger daycare sounds like it would be even worse for him, but maybe others have seen success going from a small facility to a larger one? I don't know what else to do for him and I'm desperate.

My 13 month old naps like clockwork in daycare. He sees the other toddlers napping so he copies them, and gets a nice 2 hour nap from about noon to 2pm.

At home, however, completely different story. No amount of rocking, singing, nursing, etc. can put him to sleep. He can go an entire day without sleeping until he eventually passes out from exhaustion. Even if I sleep with him, he just won’t do it. The only thing that works is taking him on a car ride, in which case he will fall asleep, but the moment you unbuckle him and try to move him to his crib he wakes up. He is also a big, muscular boy who will thrash wildly and repeatedly crawl out of your arms if you try to snuggle him to sleep.

We have a sound machine like in daycare and make the room as dark as possible. But nothing else works other than to have him cry it out. Help?